Many ecological and evolutionary processes are affected by urbanization, but cities vary by orders of magnitude in their human population size and areal extent. To quantify and …
E Piano, C Souffreau, T Merckx… - Global change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The increasing urbanization process is hypothesized to drastically alter (semi‐) natural environments with a concomitant major decline in species abundance and diversity. Yet …
As human density increases, biodiversity must increasingly co-exist with urbanization or face local extinction. Tolerance of urban areas has been linked to numerous functional traits, yet …
Human-driven environmental changes shape ecological communities from local to global scales. Within cities, landscape-scale patterns and processes and species characteristics …
Biotic homogenisation is defined as decreasing dissimilarity among ecological assemblages sampled within a given spatial area over time. Biotic differentiation, in turn, is defined as …
E Knop - Global Change Biology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Cities are growing rapidly, thereby expected to cause a large‐scale global biotic homogenization. Evidence for the homogenization hypothesis is mostly derived from plants …
X Yang, X Tan, C Chen, Y Wang - Avian Research, 2020 - Springer
Background Habitat loss, fragmentation and decrease of habitat quality caused by urbanization have led to a dramatic decline in biodiversity worldwide. For highly urbanized …
The rapid urbanization of the world has profound effects on global biodiversity, and urbanization has been counted among the processes contributing to the homogenization of …